Effective migraine treatment-Zomig

What is Zomig?

Your doctor has registered to you Zomig. It concerns to triptain group - the specific preparations developed for a cupping of attacks of a migraine. Its action consists in blocking painful impulses at a level serotomim receptors. Zomig it is effective at

• migraines with aura and without aura
• PMS migraines
• migraines at awakening
  

Zomig eliminates not only a headache at an attack of a migraine, but also signs accompanying it (a nausea, фото-and a phonophobia). Action Zomig comes quickly and lasts till 24 o'clock, that warning development of returnable and is persistent -current attacks of a migraine.

In clinical tests at long application Zomig (till 1 year) accustomings to a preparation it has not noted been. Zomig is issued in tablets on 2.5 mg. The preparation is appointed the doctor in view of your condition and accompanying diseases. If you have risk factors of development of cardiovascular diseases (high arterial pressure, a high level of a cholesterin of a blood, an obesity, Diabetum, cardiovascular diseases at members of family, for women - the period of a menopause, for men - age after 40 years), you should inform on it to the doctor who will check up a condition of your cardiovascular system before appointing Zomig.

For what it is intended Zomig?
Tablets Zomig are applied to a cupping of attacks of a migraine, but not for prevention of attacks. Accept Zomig only at development of an attack of a migraine.

Questions which need to be solved prior to the beginning of treatment Zomig
If you answer YES even one question or do not know how to answer, it is necessary for you to consult with your doctor before you will start to accept Zomig

• there Are at you pains behind a breast bone or in the field of heart, a dyspnea, faults in work of heart? Whether you suffer cardiovascular diseases? Whether there were at you attacks of a stenocardia, a myocardial infarction?
• there Are at you risk factors of development of cardiovascular diseases (high arterial pressure, a high level of a cholesterin of a blood, an obesity, Diabetum, cardiovascular diseases at members of family, for women - the period of a menopause, for men - age after 40 years)?
• you Suffer an idiopathic hypertensia?
• you Are pregnant? Whether you plan pregnancy?
• you Apply reliable contraception to prevention of pregnancy? Whether you nurse now?
• It was necessary to you to stop treatment by any medicines because of development of allergic reactions or for other reasons?
• you Accept other preparations for treatment of a migraine, including triptans, the preparations containing Ergotaminum, byhydroergotamyn, or metisygrid?
• you Accept preparations for treatment of depression (inhibitors a monoamine oksid or selective inhibitors of return capture of a serotonin)?
• you (or suffered earlier) Suffer diseases of a liver or kidneys?
• there Were at you attacks of an epilepsy or insults?
• this headache Differs from the previous attacks of a migraine?
  

Remember, that if you have answered YES any of the set forth above questions, it is necessary for you to consult with the doctor.

Zomig and pregnancy
During pregnancy Zomig it is not applied. Do not accept Zomig if you think, that you are pregnant or plan pregnancy until will consult with the attending physician.

How to accept Zomig?
Adults are recommended to begin with a dose of 2.5 mg Zomig. If necessary, probably to accept a smaller dose, having broken a tablet of 2.5 mg half-and-half manually. If signs persistently proceed or again arise within 24 hours, reception of repeated dose Zomig can be demanded. If the repeated dose is required, it should not be accepted within 2 hours after the first dose. If you do not test sufficient simplification after a dose of 2.5 mg, the subsequent attacks of a migraine can be treated Zomigом in a dose of 5 mg, preliminary having consulted with the attending physician.

The essential effect is shown within 1 hour after reception Zomig.
It is impossible to accept more than 15 mg Zomig day. Do not accept a tablet or their parts stored unpacked.

Possible by-effects
Some patients feel a pain or gravity in a thorax or a neck after reception Zomig. If the similar phenomena were observed at you, consult with the doctor before repeated reception Zomig is required to you. If the pain in a thorax strong or does not pass, urgently contact the doctor. The difficulty of respiration, a dyspnea, palpitation, puffiness of blepharons, faces or labiums, dermal rashes, a urticaria meet seldom. If at you one of the similar phenomena has developed, immediately contact the doctor. Do not accept more Zomig before consultation of the doctor. Separate people feel prickings, a heat, gravities after reception Zomig. In rare cases patients marked a sleepiness, a giddiness, weariness or feeling of weakness. Inform your doctor on any not clear sensations.

What to do at overdosage Zomig?

If you have accepted a preparation more, than it was offered to you, urgently contact your doctor, an acute management or the toxicological center. The preparation leaves personally to you in connection with your disease and should not be accepted by associates for any reasons.

How to store Zomig?
The preparation should be stored in a place inaccessible to children. Store a medicine at a room temperature, far from sources of heat, light and humidity. If the period of storage of a medicinal preparation has expired (a date closed of a period of storage is specified on packing), it should be thrown out. If your doctor for any reasons has decided to interrupt the appointed treatment, do not store the remained preparation. Be convinced, that the thrown out preparation is inaccessible to children.

Migraine and computer

In our century of a general computerization even more often there are kinds of activity at which work behind a computer makes six and more hours per day. Besides that it is unsafe and it is adverse for an organism as a whole, work behind a computer can strongly influence current of a migraine. Usually attacks of a migraine bound to work behind a computer, arise in the extremity of the working day. Unlike the usual headache bound to overwork, this kind of a headache very quickly increases the intensity and does the further continuation of activity impossible.
The reason of occurrence of attacks is bound to a strain of muscles of eyes which test a strain at fixation of the image on the display. The matter is that this image is not integral, and generates by fractional high-pitched submission of the color or black-and-white stimulus considerably differing on the testimonials from of the usual image.

The brain very sensitively concerns to a strain of the muscles surrounding a skull. And first of all it concerns an eye, which in itself are the part of a brain born on periphery.

Their strain results system of a trigeminal nerve in a condition of hyperactivity. And hyperactivity of this system plays the leading part in start of migraine attack mechanisms .

If activity of trigeminal system is in a constant tonus it will by all means affect frequency of attacks. Quite often frequency of attacks is enlarged so, that the opportunity to continue labour activity begins doubtful. More often it occurs, if there is an additional stimulus of area of an eyeglobe - there are contact lenses, a chronic conjunctivitis, the cosmetics irritating a conjunctiva is imposed.

The main references for the patient, suffering a migraine, assosiated with work behind a computer, is time depression of a load on eyes. In the first, it concerns additional stimuluses - to avoid contact of cosmetics to a conjunctiva, to use special softening solutions at wearing lenses, to apply calmatives at a conjunctivitis. If it is possible, it is recommended to replace with some time contact lenses with glasses.

The device of a workplace is very important. It is necessary to keep rules of work behind a computer - distance between the display and eyes not less than 50 sm, regular breaks in work - every 15-20 minutes, correct illumination - light from above and at the left, presence of an opportunity to look afar and to give thus rest to eyes. And application of the agents, capable to reduce influence of a migraine on a working capacity is very important. A leading agent of a cupping of an attack is Zomig - a preparation allowing in a few minutes to stop development both painful sensations, and accompanying an attack a complex of pathological changes in a brain. Not the secret, that for prosperity on work health plays a huge role. Therefore the complex of the медико-preventive measures referred on depression of influence of a migraine on vital activity is very important. To not allow a migraine to take a position, in time to stop each attack of a migraine, to organize correctly workplace, and also to make correct a regimen of work and rest considerably helps conservation of the good physical and professional form.

Migraine Treatment

Once, Aspirinum was almost unique accessible treatment for headaches. Now there are drugs, definitely intended to survey a migraine. Some drugs normally were in the habit to survey other conditions, also can help to reduce a migraine in some people. These treatments drop all in two classes:

* treatments Reducing a pain. They intercept a pain as soon as it has begun.
* Preventive treatments. They reduce or prevent a headache of a migraine.

The choice of preventive strategy or strategy reducing a pain depends on frequency and gravity of your headaches, a degree of disability your cause of headaches and other medical conditions which you can have. You can be the candidate on preventive therapy if you have two or more wearisome offences in a month if you use treatments reducing a pain more than two times week if treatments reducing a pain do not help or if you have a unusual migraine.

Some treatments are not recommended, if you are pregnant or feeding by a breast. The some people are not used for children. Your doctor can help to find correct treatment for you.

Treatments reducing a pain
For the best results, take drugs reducing a pain as soon as you test attributes or attributes of a headache of a migraine. It can help, if you have a rest or sleep in a dark room after their capture:

* Nonsteroid antiseditious drugs (NSAIDs). These treatments, phylum of Ibufrofenum (Advil, Motrin, others) or Aspirinum, can help to reduce the moderate migraine. The drugs sold definitely for a migraine, phylum of a combination acetaminophen, Aspirinum and a coffeine (Migraine Excedrin), also can relax the moderate migraine, but are not effective one for a serious migraine. If over-the-counter treatments do not help, your doctor can offer stronger, the version only for the prescription of the same preparation. If it is taken too often or for long time intervals, NSAIDs can lead to cankers, gastrointestinal bleeding and again bind headaches.
* Triptans. Sumatriptan (Imitrex) was the first medicine definitely developed to survey a migraine. It imitates action of a serotonin, binding to receptors of a serotonin and forcing veins to compress. Sumatriptan it is accessible in oral, nasal and the form of an injection. Introduced sumatriptan works more quickly than any other treatment certain for a migraine - in so a little as 15 minutes - and it is effective in most cases. But injections can be inconvenient and morbid.

Since injection sumatriptan, the flock of similar drugs became accessible, including rizatriptan (Maxalt), naratriptan (Amerge), zolmitriptan (Zomig), almotriptan (Axert), frovatriptan (Frova) and eletriptan (Relpax). These newer agents provide the help hurt within two hours for the majority of people, have less by-effects and invoke less than coming back headaches. By-effects triptans include a nausea, a giddiness, and delicacy of a muscle and, seldom, impact and heart attack.
* Ergots. drugs, phylum ergotamine (Ergomar) and dihydroergotamine (D.H.E. 45), and dihydroergotamine nasal sparks (Migranal) the help reduce a pain. These drugs can have more by-effects than, do triptans.
* Treatments for a nausea. Metoclopramide (Reglan) is beneficial to reduce a nausea and to tear bound with a migraine, not a pain of a migraine it is immediate. It also enriches stomachal remission which leads to the best absorption and faster action of many oral drugs. It is the most effective when is taken early during your migraine or even during aura before your headache begins. drugs prochlorperazine (Compazine), chlorpromazine (Thorazine), promethazine (Phenergan) and hydroxyzine (Vistaril) also can reduce a nausea, but not affect stomachal remission.

Preventive treatments
Preventive treatments can reduce frequency, gravity and length of a migraine and can enlarge efficacyy of the medicines reducing a pain used during offences of a migraine. In most cases, preventive treatments do not eliminate headaches completely, and the some people can have serious by-effects. For the best results, take these treatments as your doctor recommends:

* Cardiovascular drugs. Beta-blockers - which are normally used to survey a high blood pressure and illness of a coronary artery - can reduce frequency and gravity of a migraine. These drugs survey among agents of treatment of the first line. Blockers of the canal of calcium, other class of cardiovascular drugs, especially Verapamilum (Calan, Isoptin), also can be beneficial. Besides antihypertensive treatments lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril) and candesartan (Atacand) - beneficial treatments of an avoidance of a migraine. Explorers do not perceive precisely why all these cardiovascular drugs prevent a migraine. By-effects can include a giddiness, a sleepiness or levity.
* Antidepressants. The certain antidepressants are capable to help, prevent all phylums of headaches, including a migraine. The most effective - tricyclic antidepressants, phylum of amitriptyline, nortriptyline (Pamelor) and protriptyline (Vivactil). These treatments survey among agents of treatment of the first line and can reduce a migraine, affecting a level of a serotonin and brain chemicals. Newer antidepressants, however, are not so effective at all for an avoidance of a migraine. You should not have depression to benefit by these drugs.
* Nonsteroid antiseditious drugs (NSAIDs). On a regular basis taking over-the-counter NSAIDs, phylum of Ibufrofenum (Advil, Motrin, others) and naproxen sodium (Aleve) can reduce frequency of a migraine. If these treatments do not help, your doctor can offer stronger, the version only for the prescription of the same preparation. However, NSAIDs can enlarge your risk of cardiovascular events, phylum of heart attack and impact. Besides long-term use of these treatments can lead to cankers and another gastrointestinal to problems, phylum of a bleeding of a gaste. Speak with your doctor before a capture of these treatments on a regular basis - even variants sold without the prescription.
* drugs of anticonfiscation. Though the cause is obscure, a few drugs of anticonfiscation, phylum divalproex sodium (Depakote), valproic an acid (Depakene) and topiramate (Topamax), which are used to survey an epilepsy and bipolar illness, apparently, prevent a migraine. Gabapentin (Neurontin), other treatment of anticonfiscation, consider as the agent of treatment of the second line. Taken in high doses, however, these drugs of anticonfiscation depending on what you take, can invoke by-effects, phylum of a nausea and a vomiting, a diarrhea, cramps, loss of a hair and a giddiness.
* Cyproheptadine. This antihistamine definitely affects activity of a serotonin. Doctors sometimes give it to children as a preventive measure.
* Phylum A of toxin Botulinum (Botox). Some people receiving injections Botox for their facial folds have noted improvement of their headaches. However, obscurely, what effect Botox actually has on headaches. It can cause changes in your excitatory system which variate your tendency to educe a migraine. Additional research is necessary.

Screening and diagnosis

If you will have typical headaches of a migraine or family history of a migraine your doctor possibly diagnoses a condition on the basis of your medical history and physical examination. But if your headaches are unusual, serious or subitaneous, your doctor can recommend to exclude to the certain tests other possible causes for your pain.

You can have tests of the vision, the computerized tomography the main viewing or the magnetic resonance displaying (MRI) - diagnostic procedure of display which combines a strong magnetic field, radiowaves and computer technology to effect clear images of your internals, including your brain. During MRI, you lay on a special table while sensors take the dimensions of your head from repeated angles. The computer treats the taken away data to effect three-dimensional representation of your head.

If your doctor suspects, that the basic medical condition, phylum of a meningitis or subarachnoid hemorrhages, is the cause of your headaches, he or she can recommend a spinal signal (a lumbar puncture). In this procedure, the fine needle is inserted between two column in yours below back to take the sample cerebrospinal fluids (the device of feed of separate sheets) for laboratory analysis. Procedure borrows approximately 30 minutes. You can feel pressure while fluid is taken and to have a headache later because of depression in pressure of the device of feed of separate sheets. A lumbar puncture not without other risks, including small risk of generation of an infection contamination.

Risk factors and when to search for medical advice

It is a lot of people with migraines have family history of a migraine. If both yours the parent have migraines, there is a good chance, you will be also. Even if only one of your parents has migraines, you - still at the enlarged risk of educing migraines.

You also have rather higher risk of migraines if you are young and female. Actually, women, are three times more probable, will have migraines, as men. Headaches tend to damage boys and girls equally during the childhood, but augmentation of girls after sexual maturity.

If you are a woman with migraines, you can find, that your headaches worsen during a menstrual bleeding. They can variate also during pregnancy or a menopause. Many women report convalescence of their migraines later in pregnancy, but others report, that their migraines worsened during the first trimester. If pregnancy or a menstrual bleeding will damage your migraines your headaches, also it is probable, will worsen, if you will take hormonal replaceable therapy or contraceptive pills
Migraines - chronic breaking, but they is frequent undiagnosed and are untreated. If you test attributes and signs of a migraine, trace and do record of your attacks and as you treated them. Then agree about an occurring with your doctor to discuss your migraines and to choose the plan of processing.

If you have no plan of processing when the headache of a migraine strikes, try over-the-counter treatments of phylum of Ibufrofenum, naproxen sodium or Aspirinum, or other measures of a self-care within day or two. If you do not receive the help, see your doctor. Do not give Aspirinum to children up to 16 because of risk of Reye's syndrome, rare, but potentially fatal illness.

Even if you have history of headaches, see your doctor if changes of frame or your headaches subitaneously feel excellent. See your doctor immediately or go to abjointing a urgent surgery if you have any of following attributes and signs who can specify another, more serious medical problem, phylum of concussion:

* the Sharp, serious headache as a peal of a thunder
* the New serious headache, which not only on one side of your head
* the Headache with a fever, a stiff neck, a rash, the mental disorder, attacks, a diplopia, delicacy, a numbness or conversation of nuisance
* the Headache after a recent angina or a respiratory infection
* the Headache after a craniocerebral trauma, especially if the headache worsens
* the Constant headache which is worse after the tussis, the intense effort, straining or subitaneous locomotion
* the New pain of a headache if to you is more senior, than 55

It is probable, that your headaches do not signal a serious medical condition. But in a small amount of events, headaches can be a sign of a bloody clot or a tumour of a brain. They can signal also a temporal arteritis - the rare condition bound to a headache which normally damages people is more senior, than 55 and if not treated, can lead to blindness or impact.

The causes of migraine headaches

Though it is a lot of about headaches still it is not perceived, some explorers think, that migraines can be invoked by functional changes in system of a trifacial, the main path hurt in your excitatory system, and imbalances in cerebral chemical materials, including a serotonin which adjusts the reports of a pain which are passing this path.
During a headache, depression of levels of a serotonin. Explorers believe, that it forces a trifacial to let out the materials named by neuropeptids which go to a choronomic coating of your brain. There they force veins to become dilated and inflamed. Result - a pain of a headache.

As levels magnesian, a mineral involved in function of the excitatory cell, also go down directly, before or during a headache of a migraine, probably, that quantities magnesian can low invoke the excitatory cells in a brain to the misfire.

Trigger mechanisms of a headache of a migraine
Irrespectively exact mechanism of headaches, the flock of things can invoke them. The general trigger mechanisms of a headache of a migraine include:

* Hormonal changes.
Though exact attitudes between hormones and headaches are not clear, fluctuations in an estrogen and Progesteronum, apparently, invoke headaches in many women with headaches of a migraine. Women with history of migraines often reported headaches immediately before or during their seasons. Others report a lot of migraines during pregnancy or a menopause. Hormonal treatments, phylum of contraceptives and hormonal replaceable therapy, also can worsen migraines.
* Foodstuff.
The certain foodstuff, apparently, invoke headaches in some people. The general offenders include alcohol, especially beer and red wine; in the age of cheeses; chocolate; fermented, salted or marinated foodstuff;; a coffeine; a glutamate of monosodium - a key component in some Asian foodstuff; the certain seasonings; and many the tinned and treated foodstuff. Skipping nutriments or limitations of nutriment also can invoke migraines.
* the Strain.
The season of the hard work accompanied by a release phenomenon can lead to a headache of a migraine weekend. The strain on work or home also can incite migraines.
* Sensory stimulant.
Bright light and bright light of the sun can effect the main pain. So unusual odours - including pleasant odors, phylum of spirits and flowers, and unpleasant odors, phylum of a dissolvent and a second-hand smoke can.
* Physical factors.
The intensive physical intense effort, including sexual activity, can invoke migraines. Changes in frames of a sleep - including too many or too small sleep - also can begin a headache of a migraine.
* Changes in mediuim.
Change of weather, a season, a high-altitude level, atmospheric pressure or time zone can invoke a headache of a migraine.
* Treatments.
The certain treatments can worsen migraines.

All about migraine

Explorers across the world were linked to theories to help to explain primary causative agents as headaches of a migraine damage more and more people. The person prospective from 20 million in the United States is broken by migraines. Researches show, that illness normally damages people between age 10 and 40, and approximately 75 % - women.

The pain of a migraine is invoked by an inflammation in veins and nerves around of a brain. The exact cause of migraines - still secret. The some people speak, that the condition can follow from of some reactions in the central excitatory system because of changes in a body or mediuim. The some people are spoken also, that by the people broken with breaking of a migraine, probably, have inherited sensitivity to trigger mechanisms from their parents or the grandmother and the grandfather. Research also specifies, that people with the unique parent having migraines have 50 %-s' chance of educing migraines. Some theories - there about the causes of migraines as the theory of a blood flow, offers, that veins were narrowed or have extended. Other theory concentrates on chemical changes in a brain, where discontinuing in the reports sent from one alveole up to another is offered, that to be narrowed or dilate veins invokes a migraine. Recently, migraines also have been bound to genes where researches have shown, that inheritance of pathological genes, that the control of function of the certain cerebral alveoles can lead to migraines.

Migraines are carried in two phylums. They - the Classical Migraine and the General Migraine. In a classical migraine, the person educes the visual sign also known as a signature stamp - the turkey approximately for 10 - 30 minutes up to an attack. Together the migraine there not any signature stamp - the turkey, but is other signs as a nausea and a vomiting. Migraines also damage women during menstrual changes and as believe, are bound with a hormone.

The attitude between a migraine and epileptic breaking of an attack - also there. It is the most obvious in the epilepsy invoked by a migraine. Migraines damage approximately 15 % of the epileptic population.

To a migraine join frequent headaches. It provides the detailed information concerning migraines, and it is more than headaches of a migraine, processings of a migraine, signs of a migraine.

Symptoms and signs

The typical attack of a headache of a migraine effects the some people or all these symptoms and signs:

• Moderated to a serious pain - it is a lot of sufferers of a headache of a migraine feel a pain only on one side of their head, while some pain of an event from both sides
• the Main pain with a pulsing or pulsing quality
• the Pain which worsens with physical activity
• the Pain which interferes your regular daily активностям
• the Nausea with or without a vomiting
• Sensitivity to shine and sound
  

When it is abandoned untreated, the headache of a migraine typically lasts from four till 72 o'clock, but frequency which they meet, can variate from the person to the person. You can have migraines some times month or only a few time year.

Not all headaches of a migraine - the same. The majority of people suffers from migraines without signature stamps - turkeys who preliminary named the general migraines. The some people have migraines with signature stamps - turkeys who preliminary named classical migraines. If you will be in the second bunch you will possibly have signature stamps - turkeys approximately for 15 - 30 minutes before your headache begins. They can continue after your starts of a headache or even to meet after your headache begins. They can include:

• Sparkling flashes of light
• Magnificent zigzag lines in your field of vision
• slowly extended dead points in your vision
• the Pricking, sensations of pins-and-needles in one arm or a leg
• it is rare, delicacy or tongue and problems of speech
  

Whether really you have signature stamps - turkeys, you can have one or more sensations of the warning (injection) some hours or approximately one day before your headache actually strikes, including:

• Senses of euphoria or intensive energy
• Cravings for sweets
• Thirst
• the Sleepiness
• Irritability or depression
  

Signs of a headache of a migraine in children
Migraines typically begin in the childhood,adolescence or early adulthood and can become less frequent and intensive as you become is more senior. Children so young as age 1 can have these headaches. In addition to physical suffering, serious headaches often mean the passed school days and journeys to abjointing a urgent surgery, just as a downtime of work for disturbed parents.

Nursery migraines tend to last during shorter time. But the pain can damage and can be accompanied by a nausea, a vomiting, a giddiness and the enlarged sensitivity to shine. The headache of a migraine tends to meet from both sides of a head in children, and visual signature stamps - turkeys are rare. However, children often have attributes and signs of the prevention, phylum:

• the Yawning
• the Sleepiness or an apathism
• Bent for to foodstuff, phylum of chocolate, hot dogs, sweet snack, yoghurt and bananas
  

Children can have also all attributes and signs of a headache of a migraine - a nausea, a vomiting, has enlarged sensitivity to shine and sound - but any main pain. These " the migraines, accompanied a nausea and a vomiting " can be especially difficult diagnose.

Good news - that some of the same treatments who are effective for adults also, work for children. Your child should not endure a pain and destruction of migraines. If your child has headaches, to speak with your pediatrist. It or it can wish to carry your child to the pediatric neuropathologist.

Facts about migraine and migraine types

Migraine is a kind of ordinary and very painful headache that usually occurs on one side of the head. It often commences at teenage years or early childhood. It runs in families and has a tendency to recur.

More often than not, one side of the head experience miserable pain that last from four to 72 hours if not treated. An attack requires the sufferer to have a bed rest. The frequency of its occurrence varies; one can suffer from it once or several times in a month or in a year.

A migraine typically starts in a certain area on one side of the head, then extend and builds in severity over 1 to 2 hours and then the throbbing pain slowly diminish. Migraine headache go together with lightheadedness, sensitivity to brightness, and chills.

Migraines may occur between the ages of 10 to 40 years old. In a number of instances, the migraine attacks usually diminishes or ends in later adult life, or when one is over 50 years old.

Hereditary links is often associated with migraine. Occurrence of the illness may happen among members of the family. Probably generic factors can be involved why a person is prone to being afflicted with it. Sufferers may acquire the sensitivity to cause what brings about inflammation in the blood vessels and nerves near the brain, resulting to pain. Nonetheless, migraine is not considered as a hereditary condition.

Aretaeus of Cappodocia (2nd century AD) is known as the "discoverer" of migraine because of his definitive descriptions of the illness. It was during this era that a number of causes of migraine were noted. Celsus (215-300 AD) accurately picture what is now acknowledged as among the common migraine triggers: wine in take, acid indigestion, cold, or glaring brightness from fire or sun.

In the ancient times, most migraine sufferers are male as medical documentations disclosed. Only a few narratives of the disorder in women can be established. Findings of an accepted study done just throughout the last century illustrated the dominance of the disease in women.

More women suffer from migraine. They comprise 75% of the migraine cases. In every 4 women 1 is suffering from it, while 1 of 12 men can go through it at some times in their life.

There are two classifications of migraines as to the symptoms they produce these are:

1. Migraine with aura/Classic Migraine (with warning signs), and
2. Migraine without aura Common Migraine (no warning signs).

Migraine with aura is characterized by an unusual sensation (aura) that is in occurrence 10 to 30 minutes prior to the head pain. The warning sign may include: queasiness, nausea, enlarge blind spots, blinking or zigzagging light, strange sounds or smell and parasthesia (lack of sensation) in victim's face, tongue and extremities, verbal communication defects. The symptoms are the same as that of the common migraine except that the onset of throbbing is more abrupt.

Migraines are usually referred to as headaches when in fact the two are different. Most people can have headaches from time to time but how would you know if you are already suffering from migraine? Here are some simple diagnoses, if you have a combination of these symptoms, you should see a physician for your treatment:

•Weakness causing you to stop from daily activities.

•Blurred visions

•Dizziness

•Sensitivity to odors, light or noise

•Abdominal pains: an upset stomach followed by vomiting or nausea

•Appetite loss

•Fever, although rare

•Aura characterized by flashing lights or dots, jagged or wavy lines and blind spots

•A feeling of being very cold or warm

•Paleness

•Throbbing or pounding pains which can be moderate to severe. The pain can affect the entire head or pains can shift from one head part to another.

•Fatigue

According to statistics, in Canada alone, approximately 200,000 children and 3,000,000 adults are suffering from migraines. The intensity, symptoms and frequency differ from a person to another. 28 million Americans are diagnosed of having migraines every year. Women comprise the 70% of migraine sufferers; they are two to three times more probable to develop migraines.

Migraine should be taken seriously because the reoccurrence of pains can paralyze a victim.

The attack usually lasts for a few hours or days but the afflictions typically hits unexpectedly. To have a better understanding of migraines, you have to know its different types.

Two of the most familiar types of migraine are classic and common. The standard symptom for both types is sensitivity to light; both can have equal intensity of attack. What then are the differences between the two?

Classic migraine has an aura or visual symptoms which arise 10 to 30 minutes prior to an attack. The symptoms can include sights of zigzag lines or flashing lights. Aura can be characterized by hearing and seeing strange things. It can affect the senses of touch, taste or smell.

A person suffering from classic migraine can lose vision temporarily. There is weakness of leg or arm, confusion, speech difficulty or tingling of hands or face. Classic migraine is more common among women than men.

On the other hand, common migraine occurs without an aura; but the person suffers from the symptoms vomiting and nausea.

In addition to the common and classic types of migraine, other forms of migraine are:

• Hemiplegic migraine which can cause temporary one sided paralysis and sometimes loss of balance and dizziness (vertigo). The symptoms occur 10 to 90 minutes before the actual attack.

• Ophthalmoplegic migraine which can be felt around the eyes. This can involve disturbances in the vision; an example is having double vision and tired eyes.

• Benign exertional headache is characterized by a brief headache which is caused by bending, running, coughing or lifting. The headache rarely lasts for a long time but usually begins prior to the start of any activities.

• Menstrual migraine is more predictable and usually occurs during menstrual periods.

• Basilar Artery migraine is a pain connected to the main artery of the brain. The pre migraine symptoms can include double vision, poor muscle coordination or dizziness. This kind of migraine is common among young adult women and adolescents and is usually associated with menstrual cycle.

• Status migrainosus is exemplified by long lasting and intense headaches and nausea. The attack can last for 72 hours or longer. Behavioral symptoms such as depression and anxiety often follow the distress. It is very rare and extreme and usually requires hospitalization; some drugs can also trigger this kind of migraine.

• Headache free migraine is characterized by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation and other visual problems. Patients suffer from all the said symptoms except headaches.

• Another form of migraine is the abdominal migraine which is typical among children. The pain is severe in the midline abdomen and can last from 1 to 72 hours.

There are different migraines brought about by certain activities or tensions in life. While the differences are not that extremes, certain medications should properly be given to avoid further illnesses. Consulting a physician is always a good move to know the health problem and to acquire the necessary treatments for you.

Introduction

More than 28 million Americans — three times more women than men — suffer from migraine headaches, a type of headache that's often severe. Although any head pain can be miserable, a migraine headache is often disabling. In some cases, these painful headaches are preceded or accompanied by a sensory warning sign (aura), such as flashes of light, blind spots or tingling in your arm or leg. A migraine headache is also often accompanied by other signs and symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Migraine pain can be excruciating and may incapacitate you for hours or even days.

Fortunately, management of migraine headache pain has improved dramatically in the last decade. If you've seen a doctor in the past and had no success, it's time to make another appointment. Although there's still no cure, medications can help reduce the frequency of migraine headaches and stop the pain once it has started. The right medicines combined with self-help remedies and changes in lifestyle may make a tremendous difference for you.